I have a pleco in a 10 gallon that needs to move to another tank I setup last night because a glass globe broke in the tank hes in now, I scooped the top layer of the rocks and pulled a good bit of rocks and hopefully all the glass out of the tank, the water here at work is horrible so I brought 10 gallons from home and its been cycling since last night at around 9pm(cst)--(aquasafe added, a few algae wafers put behind the filter and in the tank to hopefully speed up sustainability, heater/aerator running the same amount of time apx 14 hours)
What kind of stresses will I be putting on the pleco if I move him now, and would it be safer to leave him in the contaminated tank vs moving him into a tank thats been cycling for right over a half day?
I dont want to lose this one cause hes the lone survivor from hurricane Gustav, we lost power here for a week, and he was the only fish to make it through until we got the generators going 4 days after we initially lost power.
Tank size: 10 Gallons
pH: N/A
ammonia: N/A
nitrite: N/A
nitrate: N/A
kH: N/A
gH: N/A
tank temp: N/A
(Also the tank its in now, has hazy green water, Im guessing an algae bloom, they just wired all the lights on in here permanently about a month ago and im guessing that has something to do with it from what ive been reading about light and water, the water in that tank has always been very hard, alkaline and borderline high levels of ammonia/nitrite/nitrate according to some strips I used in the past, attempts to level it out with chemicals has always failed according to the same strips, the water I used to initially setup the tank was tap water from an 80 year old building which is visually dirty, the water in the new tank was from my house which is cleaner.)
Thanks for your attention, if I left any important information out about the situation that would help you come to a proper conclusison let me know.
Brian
What kind of stresses will I be putting on the pleco if I move him now, and would it be safer to leave him in the contaminated tank vs moving him into a tank thats been cycling for right over a half day?
I dont want to lose this one cause hes the lone survivor from hurricane Gustav, we lost power here for a week, and he was the only fish to make it through until we got the generators going 4 days after we initially lost power.
Tank size: 10 Gallons
pH: N/A
ammonia: N/A
nitrite: N/A
nitrate: N/A
kH: N/A
gH: N/A
tank temp: N/A
(Also the tank its in now, has hazy green water, Im guessing an algae bloom, they just wired all the lights on in here permanently about a month ago and im guessing that has something to do with it from what ive been reading about light and water, the water in that tank has always been very hard, alkaline and borderline high levels of ammonia/nitrite/nitrate according to some strips I used in the past, attempts to level it out with chemicals has always failed according to the same strips, the water I used to initially setup the tank was tap water from an 80 year old building which is visually dirty, the water in the new tank was from my house which is cleaner.)
Thanks for your attention, if I left any important information out about the situation that would help you come to a proper conclusison let me know.
Brian
